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Gutting of USAID leaves agricultural research at land grant universities dangling
US Agency for International Development funds financed many forms of university ag research. Now the money is gone, and so is ...
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A media start-up was granted USAID funds. It still hasn’t been paid
After being approved for USAID funding, the show’s co-founders discovered that the agency’s money never cleared — and now the Trump administration is caught in a legal battle to dismantle USAID.
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Dozens of USAID contracts were canceled last weekend. Here's what happened
Over the weekend, however, at least 42 of those programs were informed that USAID had canceled their contracts, which ...
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USAID reverses course and restores some humanitarian aid contracts after WFP warning of possible deadly consequences
The UN agency said it had received notice from the Trump administration “indicating that funding for emergency food ...
White House to ask Congress to cut $9B in funds, including for NPR, PBS, USAID
The White House is preparing a rescission package that will seek to have Congress claw back more than $9 billion in approved ...
Pete Marocco, Trump official who oversaw dismantling of USAID, abruptly leaves State Department role
In his time in the post, Marocco worked alongside Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) but also clashed ...
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The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a 'death sentence'
The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in ...
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Inside SA government’s confused response to the USAid funding crisis
In order to finance some of the health services that have been defunded by the US, the National Health Department could ...
White House readies plan for Congress to ax taxpayer funding for NPR, PBS
White House budget director Russ Vought wants to claw back $1.1 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public ...
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Michigan universities have lost millions in grant funding. They could lose billions more.
Cuts to federal research funding have cost Michigan's public universities tens of millions of dollars. Bigger cuts may be on ...
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Bipartisan effort builds to restore USAID funding to fight malnutrition abroad
USAID freezes on funding put federal contracts for food in jeopardy. (Photo courtesy of BGR Group) RUTF production spans 27 states, red and blue, and support for the product has been a bipartisan ...